fundus
See also: Fundus
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fundus (“bottom”).
Noun
fundus (plural fundi)
- (anatomy) the large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially
- the top, hollow portion of the uterus and
- the back, interior part of the eye, accommodating the retina and associated blood vessels, etc.
- the uppermost hollow of the stomach, which in humans forms a bulge above where the oesophagus enters the stomach.
- the deepest part of a sulcus, such as the sulci in the human cerebral cortex.
Derived terms
Translations
of the eye
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Esperanto
Verb
fundus
- conditional of fundi
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-(m)n-o, from *bʰudʰmḗn. Confer with the similar treatment in Ancient Greek πύνδαξ (púndax, “bottom”). Cognates include Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna), Persian بن (bon, “root, bottom”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom”), and Old English botm (English bottom).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfun.dus/, [ˈfʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfun.dus/, [ˈfun̪d̪us]
Noun
fundus m (genitive fundī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fundus | fundī |
Genitive | fundī | fundōrum |
Dative | fundō | fundīs |
Accusative | fundum | fundōs |
Ablative | fundō | fundīs |
Vocative | funde | fundī |
Antonyms
- (bottom): vertex
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Italian: fondo
- Old French:
- French: fond (see there for further descendants)
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: fondu
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: fundo, fondo
- Old Spanish: fondo
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: fundhu, fundu, funnu
- Sicilian: funnu
- Venetian: fondo
- → Albanian: fund, fun, funn
- → Spanish: fundo
References
- “fundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fundus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “fundus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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